Two of Israel’s Embassies have resorted to using Neil’s Young’s planned concert in the apartheid state to musicwash its tarnished image. Here are two screenshots of Israel’s Canadian Embassy Twitter and also the Israel Embassy in Washington DC. An open letter has already been circulated, asking the champion defender of indigenous people’s rights in Canada, to cancel his gig and boycott Israel. His show is already set for Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 17, 2014 in a show entitled “The Past, the Present and The Future with Neil Young and Crazy Horse.”

Truly, Young’s efforts to protect first nation people’s land would ring hollow if he chooses to play in violation of the boycott call by millions of Palestinians.

Israel is at it again, greenwashing apartheid, this time using bike-sharing! With a clever tidy youtube video in English, and green-painted bikes, we are supposed to agree that because bike-sharing is happening, apartheid is somehow cool.

A Palestinian boy pushes his bicycle through the rubble in an area targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City last Nov. 2012 Photo: AFP/Getty

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Israel commits crime of apartheid: "Inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime."